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Update on Operations

iWeek’2006Johannesburg - September 2006

Adiel AkploganCEO

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AfriNIC from a project to an Organisation

About a year ago the Internet community from Africa was celebrating the accreditation and operation of AfriNIC as a Regional Internet Registry.

With some challenges like: Smooth takeover of resource management RIR system awareness in our region Internet Resource Management training Financial sustainability WSIS

Completed the Headquarters and the Recovery Center setup in Mauritius and Egypt.

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… what has happened since then?

We were along the past months focused on ensuring the continuity, with an acceptable service level.

More 1315 requests handled during the first 12 months of operations.

With an average of 50% being approved T & A principle Minimized exchanges Efficient help!

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Impact on Resource distribution?

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Growth in Resource allocation

we also had as an implication, a steady growth of the resources allocated.

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IPv6

This year, we have also been focused on IPv6 awareness among the community through training and conferences. This has led to more interest in IPv6

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How are IP Addresses Provisioned?

Need Address

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Receive Resource

Go to ISP

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Community Community Establishes CriteriaEstablishes Criteria

Through Through Policy Development Policy Development

ProcessProcess

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OPEN

TRANSPARENT‘BOTTOM UP’

NO Accreditation• Inclusive• Accessible

Internet Community Proposes, Discusses, & Approves

Policy

Documented, Published & AccessiblePDP, Policies, & Procedures

AfriNIC PDP principle

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AfriNIC PDP principle

OPEN

TRANSPARENT‘BOTTOM UP’

NO Accreditation• Inclusive• Accessible

Internet Community Proposes, Discusses, & Approves

Policy

Documented, Published & AccessiblePDP, Policies, & Procedures

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DiscussEvaluate

Implement Consensus

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AfriNIC PDP

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Training We have developed a

bilingual training plan which allowed us to run 10 training events in the past 12 months.

In 2006, the training plan (on our website) now includes a full day of IPv6 hands on training.

We now have CBT material in English and French available on CD and online (EN).

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Staffing and HR update

HostmasterRadha Ramphul

Administrative AssistantManoda Marimuthu

SES ManagerFrank Nnebe

Registration Service ManagerErnest Byaruhanga

Financial ManagerHarish Gowrisunkur

Staff has grown from 4 in April to 6 today

4 Nationalities (UG,NG,BJ,MU), and an average of 30 years old

We are in the process of hiring 3 more people by the end of 2006: System Administrator, Database Manager Membership Liaison and Communication Officer.

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Financial health We can say that the we are working hard to

achieve our full sustainability after the two year incubation period. The objectives were among others: to ensure one full year operation budget reserve

by the end of the incubation period . we will achieve about 60% by the end of 2006

To put in place good governance processes to ensure sustainable growth. Organizational and control processes in place and

accounts regularly audited)

Minimize taxes: Got Tax exemption from Mauritius Government

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2005 Audit Report (by Ernst&Young)

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Cooperation with Other organisations Building Partnership and collaboration with other

organisations:

AfNOG (MoU signed during AfriNIC-3) Participated to AfNOG funding for 2006 meeting Funded 5 persons to attend Nairobi Meeting

Ongoing discussions with Other organizations AAU (Had a very successful meeting in NBO) AfTLD AfriSPA

Continue our active participation to the NRO activities through its EC, the ECG and CCG.

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WSIS and IG AfriNIC has become a sector member of ITU-D to be able to

better participate in Internet governance related discussions in our region and raise awareness among Policy makers in this area.

Participate to all preparatory meeting in Africa Contribute to Africa common position (especially on IG) AfriNIC identified as one of the ARAPKE projects partner We have been able to represent the NRO at the ITU reform

consultation meeting in Geneva and participate to the WTDC meeting in Doha and participate to ITU-D WSIS follow up discussions.

Participate to the African Regulators Forum where AfriNIC’s presentation and intervention led to recommendation from the forum (Res.08) calling on the regulators to play a facilitator role in Internet governance issues and increase their participation to Internet governance existing fora.

Now we have to follow the discussions related to the IGF, where AfriNIC and LACNIC are honored to have their CEOs (Myself and Raul Echeberia) appointed as member of the Meeting Advisory Group.

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Other projects Beside our core activity which is Internet resource

management we are working on some other projects of interest for the community: MyAfriNIC: a portal to allow LIRs to easily interact with

AfriNIC and manage their resources. Routing Information and statistics: A tool to evaluate

the routing status of resources allocated by AfriNIC and overall statistics on Internet resources in our region

Activation of AfriNIC IRR (by second quarter 2007) Internet Resource Certification (RFC 3779): Setup of

CA for resource certification (used along with the IRR for S-BGP and other authenticated peering agreement)

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So… It clearly appears from above that something has

changed since 2004. Due to:

More awareness among Operators across the region Proximity of the RIR … Growth in Internet Business in Africa

We now need to support these positive achievements by strengthening the organisation structure and our policy development process.

The community participation in policy development is key to RIR success.

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… where from here? While it seems like things are moving, we still have

some challenges facing us as a young organisation and also as a community:

Awareness and cooperation, work still needs to be done towards the stakeholders (public/private sector and civil society).

Increase participation to our own policy development process.

Strengthen the organization’s structure to handle the growth efficiently

Further we need to increase our contribution to Internet development by supporting Research and Infrastructure Initiative (in the limit of our resources)

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Next Public policy Meeting

Baclava, Mauritius

27 November – 1 December 2006

- Back to back with IPv6 conference, IPv6 hands on training, AftLD meeting,

INET’Indian Ocean and tutorials -

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Thank You